Welcome
to the City of St. Petersburg City
Council meeting.To assist the City Council in conducting the Citys business, we ask
that you observe the following:

1.If you are speaking
under the Public Hearings, Appeals or Open Forum sections of the agenda, please
observe the time limits indicated on the agenda.

2.Placards and posters
are not permitted in the Chamber.Applause is not permitted except in connection with Awards and
Presentations.

3.Please do not address
Council from your seat.If asked by
Council to speak to an issue, please do so from the podium.

4.Please do not pass
notes to Council during the meeting.

5.Please be courteous
to other members of the audience by keeping side conversations to a minimum.

6.The Fire Code prohibits
anyone from standing in the aisles or in the back of the room.

7.If other seating is
available, please do not occupy the seats reserved for individuals who
are deaf/hard of hearing.

GENERAL AGENDA INFORMATION

For
your convenience, a copy of the agenda material is available for your review at
the Main Library, 3745 Ninth
Avenue North, and at the City Clerks Office, 1st
Floor, City Hall, 175 Fifth Street
North, on the Monday preceding the regularly
scheduled Council meeting. The agenda and backup material is posted on the
Citys website @ www.stpete.org.A copy is also available on the podium
outside Council Chamber at the start of the Council meeting.

If
you are deaf/hard of hearing and require the services of an interpreter, please
contact the City Clerk, 893-7448, or call our TDD Number, 892-5259, at least 24
hours prior to the meeting and we will provide that service for you.

If you wish to address City Council on
subjects other than public hearing or quasi-judicial items listed on this
agenda, please sign up with the Clerk prior to the meeting.Only the individual wishing to speak may sign
the Open Forum sheet and only City residents, owners of property in the City,
owners of businesses in the City or their employees may speak.All issues discussed under Open Forum must be
limited to issues related to the City of St.
Petersburg government.

Speakers will be called to address
Council according to the order in which they sign the Open Forum sheet. In order to provide an opportunity for all
citizens to address Council, each individual will be given three (3)
minutes.The nature of the speakers'
comments will determine the manner in which the response will be provided.The response will be provided by City staff
and may be in the form of a letter or a follow-up phone call depending on the
request.

C.Consent
Agenda (see attached)

D.New
Ordinances - (First Reading
of Title and Setting of Public Hearing)

(a)Resolution
authorizing the Mayor or his designee to forgive an emergency repair second
mortgage loan in the principal amount of $6,762 on the property located at 2516
3rd Avenue South ("current home"), given to Vincent Jones, which will
allow Mr. Jones to sell his current home to Habitat for Humanity and to
purchase a new home through the City's Neighborhood Stabilization Program
(NSP-1) with financing from Habitat for Humanity; and authorizing the Mayor or
his designee to execute all documents necessary to effectuate these
transactions.

NOTE:The following Public Hearing items have been
submitted for consideration by the City Council.If you wish to speak on any of the Public
Hearing items, please obtain one of the YELLOW cards from the containers
on the wall outside of Council Chamber, fill it out as directed, and present it
to the Clerk.You will be given 3
minutes ONLY to state your position on any item but may address more than one
item.

Swearing in of
witnesses.Representatives of City
Administration, the appli­cant/appellant, opponents, and members of the public
who wish to speak at the public hearing must declare that he or she will
testify truthfully by taking an oath or affirmation in the following form:

"Do you swear or
affirm that the evidence you are about to give will be the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth?"

The oath or
affirmation will be administered prior to the presentation of testimony and
will be administered in mass to those who wish to speak.Persons who submit cards to speak after the
administration of the oath, who have not been previously sworn, will be sworn
prior to speaking.For detailed procedures to be followed for
Quasi-Judicial Proceedings, please see yellow sheet attached to this agenda.

(a)Awarding
a three-year blanket purchase agreement to Morelli Landscaping, Inc. for
landscaping services for the Engineering and Capital Improvements Department at
an estimated first year cost of $1,715,000.

(b)Authorizing
the Mayor or his designee to execute a District Seven Highway Landscape
Reimbursement and Maintenance Memorandum of Agreement between the City and the
Florida Department Of Transportation for the purpose of performing highway
beautification on State Road rights-of-way within the corporate limits of the
City of St. Petersburg in Pinellas County, Florida at a maximum reimbursement
amount of $1,000,000; and approving a supplemental appropriation in the amount
of $1,000,000 from the increase in the unappropriated balance of the General
Capital Improvement Fund (3001), resulting from these additional revenues, to
theFDOT Right of Way Landscape
Improvements Project (13119).

Consent Agenda II

Consent
Agenda B

January 20, 2011

NOTE:The Consent Agenda contains normal, routine business items that are
very likely to be approved by the City Council by a single motion.Council questions on these items were
answered prior to the meeting.Each
Councilmember may, however, defer any item for added discussion at a later time.

1.Anyone wishing to speak must fill out a yellow card and present
the card to the Clerk.All speakers must
be sworn prior to presenting testimony.No cards may be submitted after the close of the Public Hearing.Each party and speaker is limited to the time
limits set forth herein and may not give their time to another speaker or
party.

2.At any time during the
proceeding, City Council members may ask questions of any speaker or
party.The time consumed by Council
questions and answers to such questions shall not count against the time frames
allowed herein.Burden of proof:
in all appeals, the Appellant bears the burden of proof; in variance
application cases, the Applicant bears the burden of proof; in rezoning and
Comprehensive Plan land use cases, the Owner bears the burden of proof except
in cases initiated by the City Administration, in which event the City
Administration bears the burden of proof. Waiver of Objection: at any
time during this proceeding Council Members may leave the Council Chamber for
short periods of time.At such times they
continue to hear testimony because the audio portion of the hearing is
transmitted throughout City Hall by speakers.If any party has an objection to a Council Member leaving the Chamber
during the hearing, such objection must be made at the start of the
hearing.If an objection is not made as
required herein it shall be deemed to have been waived.

3.Initial Presentation.Each party shall be allowed ten (10) minutes
for their initial presentation.

a.Presentation by City
Administration.

b.Presentation by Applicant
and/or Appellant. If Appellant and Applicant are different entities then each
is allowed the allotted time for each part of these procedures.The Appellant shall speak before the
Applicant.In connection with land use
and zoning ordinances where the City is the applicant, the land owner(s) shall
be given the time normally reserved for the Applicant/Appellant, unless the
land owner is the Appellant.

c.Presentation by
Opponent.If anyone wishes to utilize
the initial presentation time provided for an Opponent, said individual shall
register with the City Clerk at least one week prior to the scheduled public
hearing.

4.Public
Hearing.A Public Hearing will be
conducted during which anyone may speak for 3 minutes.Speakers should limit their testimony to
information relevant to the ordinance or application and criteria for review.

5.Cross Examination.Each party shall be allowed five (5) minutes
for cross examination.All questions
shall be addressed to the Chair and then (at the discretion of the Chair) asked
either by the Chair or by the party conducting the cross examination of the
speaker or of the appropriate representative of the party being cross
examined.One (1) representative of each
party shall conduct the cross examination.If anyone wishes to utilize the time provided for cross examination and
rebuttal as an Opponent, and no one has previously registered with the Clerk,
said individual shall notify the City Clerk prior to the conclusion of the
Public Hearing.If no one gives such notice,
there shall be no cross examination or rebuttal by Opponent(s).If more than one person wishes to utilize the
time provided for Opponent(s), the City Council shall by motion determine who
shall represent Opponent(s).

a. Cross examination by Opponents.

b.Cross examination by City Administration.

c.Cross examination by Appellant followed by Applicant, if
different.

6.Rebuttal/Closing.Each party shall have five (5) minutes to
provide a closing argument or rebuttal.